The Sacred Cow and the Abominable Pig: Riddles of Food and Culture

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Página 184Fifty miles north of the Arctic Circle near Colville Lake in Canada's Northwest
Territories there is a group of Hare, an Athabaskan-speaking people, who make
their living from hunting and trapping. The Hare's aversion to dogflesh accords
well ...

Página 189Not by breeding them but by hunting them. "A mother dog would be tracked to her
den and speared [and eaten] during the pupping season, and some of her
puppies would be taken back to camp to become temporary pets. " All of these
bits ...

Página 192addition to obtaining decorative hair or feathers from these animals, hunters also
probably acquire a considerable amount of information about animal physiology
and behavior—information that is useful in tracking and killing the adults of the ...

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Marvin Harris is an American anthropologist who was educated at Columbia University, where he spent much of his professional career. Beginning with studies on race relations, he became the leading proponent of cultural materialism, a scientific approach that seeks the causes of human behavior and culture change in survival requirements. His explanations often reduce to factors such as population growth, resource depletion, and protein availability. A controversial figure, Harris is accused of slighting the role of human consciousness and of underestimating the symbolic worlds that humans create. He writes in a style that is accessible to students and the general public, however, and his books have been used widely as college texts.